Emotional Communication: Countertransference Analysis and the Use of Feeling in Psychoanalytic Technique

ISBN-13: 9780415525169 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 352 str.

Paul Geltner

Opis

What role does animal like and infantile communication play in life and in psychoanalysis? How are painful childhood experiences recreated with people who are nothing like the original family? What are the roles of loving and horrible feelings in psychoanalytic cure? In 'Emotional Communication', Paul Geltner places the pre-linguistic type of communication that is shared with infants and animals at the core of the psychoanalytic relationship.

Spis treści

Preface. Introduction. The Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of Objective Countertransference. The Concept of Objective Countertransference and its Place in a Two-Person Psychology. Emotional Communication and its Relationship to the Basic Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Differentiating Objective and Subjective Countertransference. Narcissistic Countertransference. Object Countertransference. Countertransference in Projective Identification. Anaclitic Countertransference. Emotional Communication in Psychoanalytic Technique. Narcissistic Emotional Communications. Object Emotional Communications.Emotional Communications to Projective Identification. Anaclitic Emotional Communications. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography.

O autorze

Paul Geltner is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, USA. He specializes in individual and group supervision of psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.